Confederate Riders of America

Defending Freedom and our Southern Way of Life

Our Mission

To defend our Constitutional Freedoms and our Southern heritage, history, culture and way of life.

We welcome people from all walks of life, backgrounds and color. We are a non-racist, non-hate organization dedicated to defending the freedoms envisioned by our forefathers.

Now is the time for all of us to band together as a UNITED people with a common goal. That goal is to protect our flag, our way of life, our freedoms and our families.

Click on your state to get in touch with a CRA member near you.

Adopt-A-Soldier

Welcome to the CRA Adopt-A-Soldier Program. One of our vital missions is to adopt and take care of as many Confederate graves as possible.

This program was created to give credit and honor to those soldiers who fought and died in the Civil War. Over 285,000 Southern men gave their lives that we might have the freedoms which are enumerated in the Constitution of the United States.

This program is designed so every member of the CRA has an Adopted Soldier to care for and therefore honoring him.

So how do we do this? Well, first we locate a soldier near our home so that we can go and clean his grave, cut the grass and weed eat the trim, then place a Battle Flag on his grave.

Then that soldier is registered in the Adopt-A-Soldier Program. The records are kept by the Adopt-A-Soldier Coordinator. Each month we care for our soldier. In the summer months more visits are required due to the grass growing more. We can also clean his headstone with non-harmful chemicals.

When you adopt a soldier he is totally in your care, just as if you had adopted a child for life. We honor him each time we go. Each time you place a flag take a picture so that we can use it on the Adopt-A-Soldier website.

Remember the more soldiers you adopt means the more work you have to put into this. It’s not just a program! It’s a system set up to honor those who fought for us. A way to say this Soldier is my adopted son and I love him. He is a special ancestor and I care for his grave to honor him. If you need me to find one in your area, I will do everything possible to do so. We are brothers and sisters joined together by these soldiers. We cannot let the lives of these men slip away in history.

Junior Riders Program

The CRA Junior Riders program was started shortly after the CRA formed in the fall of 2015 as an auxiliary program for youth ages 7-18.

We realized that our young people were not only interested in what the adults were doing and felt the same energy and passion for preserving their heritage, but also that it is incredibly important for America’s youth to understand the true history of the Confederates and the principles that our great nation was founded on.

Seeing the alarming decline of morals and ethics in today’s world, we decided that a key part of the program would be to give these young people who represent our organization a framework of education and expectations, complete with fair and firm consequences.